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Old 12-29-2022, 11:37 AM
 
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
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The Census Bureau released the list today. It changed the game for when business executives, politicians, and other officials, for instance, will think and speak about the state’s largest urban area(s).

Charleston as a newly designated urban area is the state’s largest by 94,366. Columbia is second. Greenville is third. This does not include Charlotte, NC-SC. This is a new list of urban areas as they are now defined by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Charleston 684,773
Columbia 590,407
Greenville 387,271

https://www.federalregister.gov/docu...clarifications
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Old 12-29-2022, 02:24 PM
 
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The Census Bureau released the list today. It changed the game for when business executives, politicians, and other officials, for instance, will think and speak about the state’s largest urban area(s).

Charleston as a newly designated urban area is the state’s largest by 94,366. Columbia is second. Greenville is third. This does not include Charlotte, NC-SC. This is a new list of urban areas as they are now defined by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Charleston 684,773
Columbia 590,407
Greenville 387,271

https://www.federalregister.gov/docu...clarifications
Not sure why Mauldin-Simpsonville which is contiguous with Greenville is shown as a separate urban area. That's 160k people. I guess it doesn't really matter. So long as we keep landing amenities.
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Old 12-29-2022, 02:47 PM
 
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
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Not sure why Mauldin-Simpsonville which is contiguous with Greenville is shown as a separate urban area. That's 160k people. I guess it doesn't really matter. So long as we keep landing amenities.
The CB must feel the two aren’t contiguous enough by population density.
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Old 12-29-2022, 03:36 PM
 
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The Census Bureau released the list today. It changed the game for when business executives, politicians, and other officials, for instance, will think and speak about the state’s largest urban area(s).

Charleston as a newly designated urban area is the state’s largest by 94,366. Columbia is second. Greenville is third. This does not include Charlotte, NC-SC. This is a new list of urban areas as they are now defined by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Charleston 684,773
Columbia 590,407
Greenville 387,271

https://www.federalregister.gov/docu...clarifications
Come again?
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Old 12-29-2022, 03:43 PM
 
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
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The Census Bureau released the list today. It changed the game for when business executives, politicians, and other officials, for instance, will think and speak about the state’s largest urban area(s).

Charleston as a newly designated urban area is the state’s largest by 94,366. Columbia is second. Greenville is third. This does not include Charlotte, NC-SC. This is a new list of urban areas as they are now defined by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Charleston 684,773
Columbia 590,407
Greenville 387,271

https://www.federalregister.gov/docu...clarifications
I repeat.
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Old 12-29-2022, 03:48 PM
 
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
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This has been coming. I have been waiting. Urban areas don’t count rural areas as MSAs do. The country parts of counties in MSAs are included in MSA population counts and estimates. Not so for urban areas, which include only urban-suburban population.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/...hange-95932119
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Old 12-29-2022, 03:58 PM
 
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
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More on the change in the Census Bureau’s definition of urban area -

A more accurate measure and reflection of population density and city size, especially in a state with arbitrary city boundaries and stifling annexation laws as in South Carolina

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/pol...eas-in-america
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Old 12-29-2022, 05:35 PM
 
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The CB must feel the two aren’t contiguous enough by population density.
They definitely are. There is no change. Just developed urban area to more urban area. I guess it doesn't really matter. We still get stuff other places don't have, so they at least recognize the draw of people in the area.
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Old 12-29-2022, 06:03 PM
 
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Not sure why Mauldin-Simpsonville which is contiguous with Greenville is shown as a separate urban area. That's 160k people. I guess it doesn't really matter. So long as we keep landing amenities.
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The CB must feel the two aren’t contiguous enough by population density.
It's been the case that once a place has met the criteria to be designated as its own urbanized area, it will remain so unless its population no longer meets the threshold to be considered such. If it is sufficiently contiguous to an adjacent urbanized area and otherwise meets the normal criteria for inclusion, then a merge will take place.

I'm not sure if the recent revisions have kept this intact or not though.
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Old 12-29-2022, 06:05 PM
 
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I repeat.
How is Charleston a "newly designated urban area"? It's been designated as such from the beginning.
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